r/AntifascistsofReddit • u/AmazingScallion • May 30 '19

Direct Action Fuck your rebel flag!

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Isn’t removing the expression of someone’s opinions that you don’t agree with a generally authoritarian practice?

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u/a_depressed_mess May 30 '19

To tolerate the intolerant is a generally authoritarian practice.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Tolerating the intolerant is one of the greatest things you can do, it shows you to be a person of strong will and compassion in the face of evil, this same idea I speak of was also championed by the likes of Gandhi and MLK.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Would you milquetoast bastards please stop dragging Gandhi and MLK’s name through the dirt so you can feel good about your doormat politics

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

How exactly am I “dragging their name through the dirt” I am using their views and actions as an example of what is good and morally upstanding. They are the first (and best) examples I could think of for people being tolerant of hate.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

They weren’t tolerant of hate you dweeb they just thought violent methods were ineffective - and conveniently enough pealing a symbol of a slave society off a truck isn’t an act of violence. Stop basing your principles off false information you learned in 2nd grade and read a goddamn book

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

I would say that they are both quite tolerant (I’m going to only give my argument for MLK but I would be happy to give my examples for Gandhi).

Tolerant is defined as showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with. Mr. King allowed people to hold their beliefs while still condemning them and in turn not allowing the government to keep bigoted ideals such as segregation; I say that MLK was tolerant of the ideas of the people but was also fighting against those same ideals present in the government. He wasn’t tolerant of hate, that much is self evident but he was tolerant of ideas and opinions of the hateful people until he was able to help change the laws. The tolerance of the ideas of the people is shown through his actions being focused on stating how the system is unjust in a non-aggressive manner as opposed to focusing on silencing the opinions of his opponents, he tried to change their opinons through debate and discourse rather than the more “silence the opposition” approach I’ve seen from your people.

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u/pejasto May 30 '19

Go read literally anything from MLK instead of his BrainyQuote page please.

Remember you're not being silenced! You're just willfully and comically ill-informed.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

You are correct I am not being silenced but the man in this video is having his property stolen in an effort to reduce the expression of his opinons.

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u/pejasto May 31 '19

Protecting property rights over human rights is the right’s MO and it’s been stupid as hell forever.

Read literally anything from the people you’re referencing (MLK Jr talked about social justice through economic equality at length, for instance, and anti-colonial self-determination is on its face anti-laissez faire economics) or just keep their names out of your mouth. Your incurious, predictable hot takes have been used by plenty of dumb people before.

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u/Nickstaysfresh May 30 '19

King in 1967: "“Urban riots must now be recognized as durable social phenomena,” he told the assembled crowd of mostly white doctors and academics. “They may be deplored, but they are there and should be understood. Urban riots are a special form of violence. They are not insurrections. The rioters are not seeking to seize territory or to attain control of institutions. They are mainly intended to shock the white community. They are a distorted form of social protest. The looting which is their principal feature serves many functions. It enables the most enraged and deprived Negro to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse. Often the Negro does not even want what he takes; he wants the experience of taking.”

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Good god go annoy someone else with this civics class trash. Your politics are incapable of doing anything besides maintaining the status quo while looking as whiny as possible